And if you read the logs there can be maybe 50 "attacks" ranging from medium to high risk in 30 minutes.
Now, is each one of these a script-kiddie ( or worse ) sat with a packet sniffer trying their luck, or is it more likely a case of most being originated from other, infected pc's automatically as a result of their infection?
What exactly are they trying to get hold of?
2006-12-12 06:35:29 · 7 answers · asked by fivehundredmonkeys 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
I never have ANY personal details on my pc.
2006-12-12 06:44:08 · update #1
You're just being pinged by port scanners. It can come from both another infected machine or by someone intentionally doing so. What they're trying to "get a hold of" is what ports (and thus services and software) you're machine is using. Either way, it doesn't matter, you're firewall is preventing your machine from "answering" the probes.
2006-12-12 06:42:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Most of these are done by people sitting at a computer doing a port scan for certain open ports like 139, or if u had a backdoor trojan installed on your computer it would have a specific port number as well. Its good that zone alarm blocks this, this kind of stuff happens all the time on the internet :)
2006-12-12 14:40:12 · answer #2 · answered by Michael Burns 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they just want to ruin your computer because i was on broad band I was used to getting "attacked" upwards of 41 times in about 90 seconds. before my motherbourd on my old system failed due to being overloaded by a faulty monitor.
2006-12-12 19:06:32 · answer #3 · answered by demonicunicorn 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they are port scans.comon on the internet. if you click on the alert from the high-medium etc. you can ask for more info and it will take you to there web site were you will get the info of the alert.and every one gets them.
2006-12-12 14:40:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you don't have the Pro version of Zone Alarm I would recommend the free version of Comodo: http://www.comodogroup.com/products/free_products.html
Along with Cyberhawk: http://www.novatix.com/cyberhawk/
Then for a final round of security go here and test your machine:
https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2
2006-12-12 14:43:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Your computer may have valuable info especially if you shop on line.
2006-12-12 14:39:16 · answer #6 · answered by shadouse 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
they're trying to get to your personal information to steal it and use it so don't put any personal stuff on your system I could be wrong but that's my advice
2006-12-12 14:45:13 · answer #7 · answered by zippo091 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋